Forgetful Muses : : Reading the Author in the Text / / Ian Lancashire.
How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconscious creativity.Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'anonymous,'...
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Place / Publishing House: | Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2017] ©2010 |
Year of Publication: | 2017 |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource :; 18 halftones; 24 tables |
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Other title: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures, Distribution Graphs, and Tables -- Preface -- Credits and Sources -- Introduction: Finding the Author in the Text -- 1. Experiencing the Muse -- 2. Uttering -- 3. Cybertextuality -- 4. Poet-authors -- 5. Novelist-authors -- 6. Reading the Writer's Own Anonymous -- Appendix -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index |
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Summary: | How can we understand and analyze the primarily unconscious process of writing? In this groundbreaking work of neuro-cognitive literary theory, Ian Lancashire maps the interplay of self-conscious critique and unconscious creativity.Forgetful Muses shows how a writer's own 'anonymous,' that part of the mind that creates language up to the point of consciousness, is the genesis of thought. Those thoughts are then articulated by an author's inner voice and become subject to critique by the mind's 'reader-editor.' The 'reader-editor' engages with the 'anonymous,' which uses this information to formulate new ideas. Drawing on author testimony, cybernetics, cognitive psychology, corpus linguistics, text analysis, the neurobiology of mental aging, and his own experiences, Lancashire's close readings of twelve authors, including Caedmon, Chaucer, Coleridge, Joyce, Christie, and Atwood, serve to illuminate a mystery we all share. |
Format: | Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. |
ISBN: | 9781442686328 9783110667691 9783110490954 |
DOI: | 10.3138/9781442686328 |
Access: | restricted access |
Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
Statement of Responsibility: | Ian Lancashire. |